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In Miami, superstitious, but very lucky showgirl Candy
Williams narrowly misses several catastrophes as she makes her way to
the theater. There, after a performance of the show Parisian
Pretties for an audience of thirteen, she and the other members of
her troupe, manager Hap Snyder, comedian Duke McGee and dancer Flo
Neely, are thrown out. Finding his troupe broke, stranded and
hungry, the resourceful Hap tricks the show's only fan, policeman Barney
Mahoney, into agreeing to make a phony arrest, after the troupe has had
a chance to eat a big meal at the expensive restaurant Anton's.
However, Mahoney goes off duty while they are dining and, when a
different policeman responds to Hap's prearranged signal, the troupe
must work off the meal in the kitchen to avoid a real arrest.
While cleaning the hall floors of the adjoining hotel,
Flo overhears Brad Carson, a successful Tin Pan Alley composer, talking
to his agent, Tommy Arthur, about a musical show he is writing and wants
produced. Brad is hoping that oil magnate Otis Thayer, the father
of Lorraine, a possessive woman he has been seeing, will back the show
after Brad presents some of his songs at Thayer's upcoming birthday
party. Lorraine shows up and, although Brad tries to make it clear
to her that he wants her father's backing to be a purely business deal
and that his personal interest in her is limited, Lorraine persists in
trying to buy his love.
Later, while trying to avoid black cats and sidewalk
cracks, Candy causes Brad to crash his car. At the garage, the
mechanic offers the loan of his car, an old clunker bearing the garage's
business logo. After driving away, Brad narrowly escapes a second
accident caused by Candy, but feels an instant attraction for her.
He invites her on a date, and lets her believe that he is a mechanic, as
the sign on the car indicates.
After seeing Candy and Brad leave for their date that
night, Hap follows them to a beach restaurant and introduces himself,
hoping to get work for the troupe in Brad's new musical. Candy
gets angry and leaves when she realizes that Brad has deceived her about
his identity, but Brad agrees with Hap to secretly watch the troupe
practice in Anton's dining room after hours.
At the rehearsal, Brad and Candy make up, and Brad offers
her and her companions roles in his show. However, later, after
seeing Candy and Brad rehearsing, Lorraine jealously insists that Candy
cannot be in the show if Brad wants Thayer's backing. Candy,
presuming that Brad gave Lorraine reason to feel possessive of him,
quarrels with Brad and distrusts his declaration of love for her.
However, when Brad loses interest in his show and leaves for New York,
Candy realizes he does love her and decides to help him.
Disguised as genteel English persons, Candy, wearing a
black wig, and Duke crash Thayer's birthday party, and are soon joined
by Flo and Hap, who impersonate wealthy Texans. Together they lure
Lorraine into the pool. While Lorraine is out of the way drying
off, Candy takes off her wig and sings Brad's songs for the guests.
Having enjoyed Candy's performance, Thayer is ready to sign a check, but
Lorraine interrupts, claiming misrepresentation.
Meanwhile, Brad has returned to Miami to face Thayer and
tactfully tells him that he is not interested in romancing Lorraine for
the money. However, Thayer is aware that Lorraine manipulates men
with her wealth and is still interested in backing the show. To
encourage Thayer to act immediately, Hap starts a bidding competition
and almost causes Thayer to back out, but Candy announces that they will
only accept Thayer's money. For the second time, Thayer prepares
to sign a check, but the deal is again in jeopardy when Candy, realizing
the date is Friday the thirteenth, almost stops him. However, to
the relief of her friends, Candy renounces her superstitions, finally
realizing how lucky she is. |
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